Dr. Severian Will See You Now...

I have been reading Gene Wolf recently, so a visit to the dentist inevitably brings up images of the Guild of Torturers. Or at least Steve Martin.

The funny thing was when the assistant said, "avoid coffee, red pasta sauce, red wine and other things that can stain for the rest of the day." I managed to avoid the red wine, but, look, it is a molar, only the cement is in danger of staining, and it is very close to the gum line anyway.

Avoid coffee. Hah.

Tooth only hurts a little bit, which is better than the four and a half hour torture session I had with three other molars last month. The novocaine wore off twice in the middle of it (I metabolize things very quickly). I don't blame my current dentist, who seems to do excellent work, rather I blame the quack who installed the prematurely deteriorating fillings in the first place (Dr. WhyIAvoidedDentistsForFourteenYears).

Other than her shoddy work, I had only two small regions of decay in fourteen years without a proper cleaning and check up.

The moral of the story: brush and floss regularly. It pays off. Really.